Winds of change

MACHRIHANISH’S wind tower manufacturing plant is no stranger to job crises and threatened closures but seemed to have turned a corner with its purchase by CS Wind. In spring 2009, Danish firm Skykon bought it from Vestas after it had gone bust. In January 2011, Skykon filed for bankruptcy with a good order book and a recently completed factory lying empty.

It was bought in May 2011 by SSE and Marsh Wind Technology and subsequently sold last year.